Admittedly my one experience with Vista was a terrible ordeal and I’m still not sure whether it was the OS or the hardware, but I haven’t touched a Vista machine since then so my opinion is slightly flawed. I never had any issues with XP other than the usual and I’d gladly pick up another XP machine, but I’ve been under the impression that the downgrade has only… Read More

I’ve been itching to get a record player of my own for over a decade now, but I’ve never found the right time or have I had the money set aside to really think about getting one. My recent stint in an East Village sublet piqued my interest once again and also alerted me to a few things about old LPs that I never really had to think about. Warped LPs are a deal breaker when… Read More

While I wouldn’t necessarily want to replace my desktop with a laptop, I surely wouldn’t want it to be a Sony VAIO since it runs Windows and we all know how much CG hates loves M$. Wouldn’t you love to have a Blu-ray card and CableCARD? I know I do, which is the case for the 17-inch VAIO AR series notebooks that also come equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 and T7500… Read More

Having just bought a Mac after ten years of Windows, I feel as though I have a heightened appreciation for products and services that are pleasurable to use. And while I love websites that implement Ajax or Flash effectively, few online destinations can match the usability of a well-designed desktop application.
That’s why I found Google Analytics AIR beta, publicly released on… Read More

Having enough real estate on our desks/work stations is a problem that everyone and anyone can relate to. It’s even worse when you’re a geek who has 2+ monitors, multiple external HDDs, USB hubs and whatever else a geek feels necessary. So I’m pretty happy that Ultra Products has announced the Stackables computer peripherals line of products that consist of a 3.5-inch HDD… Read More

Trutap, a recent entrant in the TechCrunch40 competition which markets a social media client software for mobile phones, has raised another £3.23m ($6.5 million) from The Tudor Group and angel investors. The offers software blog posting, IM, group SMS, web photo-sharing and access to existing social networks. Last year it raised £600,000 ($1.2) angel funding, with £3.23m ($6.5m) from Tudor. Read More

The iPhone or a black N95 from Europe are certainly too rich for my blood and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the uber rich with either on more than occasion, so I have to wonder who wants to buy a phone from Vertu. Ferraris are very cool cars, but I feel it extremely unnecessary to commemorate the 60th anniversary with a limited edition phone. The Ascent Ferrari 60 will yield only 60… Read More

Well this was inevitable I guess. mEgo has been booted out of the DEMO conference. The reason? They showed their stuff at TechCrunch40 last week. Our coverage of them is here.
That’s a bit rough on the company, since many of the presenting startups at DEMO are already launched and have tons of press out there about them. In this case, mEgo may have simply been the sacrificial lamb in… Read More

Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com is mad. So am I, although not quite about the same thing. Zheng is brassed off that the Windows Ultimate team hasn’t delivered DreamScene (basically, the ability to use a video file as your desktop background) and 20 language packs by the end of summer like it promised. Read More

Dell is teaming up with a Chinese partner, Gome Group, to sell Dell-branded laptops in China. HP and Lenovo are leading the race in our neighbor to the east and this move has been a long time in coming.
Dell’s market share is currently worldwide 16.1 percent, an average percentage, and about 18 percent of China’s PC market. This move should allow the manufacturer to sell directly… Read More

Sometimes I receive review units of items I’ve never requested or completely forgot about. Newer Technology’s NuPower Video+ iPod battery is one of these. It came a few days before I left for Boston and I didn’t have much time to play with it. I grabbed it, took it on the plane and that was that. It gave me a little juice, my iPod lasted the entire trip – I was happy. Read More

Facebook may be worth $10 billion, at least to Microsoft, says the Wall Street Journal. Someone leaked to them that the two companies are in discussions to take a Microsoft investment of $300-$500 million for 5% of the company.
Here’s the (free) Reuters angle on the story. They’re saying Facebook may be holding out for a $15 billion valuation. What the hell. Why not?
The two… Read More

Halo 3 still doesn’t launch until midnight, yet that hasn’t kept the fanboys from showing off their DIY projects. The latest case of Halo 3 madness comes in the form of an Xbox 360 mod that is extremely detailed. Resting on top of a rocky landscape is a Xbox 360 that is decked out in lights and Halo-related skins. Fighting in between the console are two Spartan/Master Chief… Read More

A wide range of companies send information to the MobileCrunch offices, and one came today that made me stop and think, “I wish I would have thought of that.” The idea has been around for a few years but hasn’t made much of a splash in the United States. MobileCrunch first mentioned the idea in October 2006, with the last update coming in May of this year, Pilot Program… Read More

MARIJUANA! REEFER MADNESS!
Go ahead and buy drugs. It’s my job to report the news, not to be the moral police.
However, I must highly recommend taking the time to consider what you text to your friends and/or dealers. See, a UK man sent a text message to what he thought was his pal’s phone number. Turns out, the phone number had been switched over to a State Policeman’s account. Read More

In a move that surprised many, Virgin has shut down Virgin Digital, which is a Windows Media-based iTunes-like clone. Subscribers will still have access to purchased tracks, but only until the end of the month, September 28 to be exact. It may be coincidence, which I don’t think it is, but that is also the iPod Touch’s launch date for the UK.
There isn’t even a reason for… Read More

One of the highlights of the TechCrunch40 conference last week was when I had an opportunity to sit down with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. We talked for 45 minutes about some of the big projects Facebook has launched over the last year – including the launch of the News Feed in 2006, the Facebook Platform, dealing with user abuse by third party developers and much, much… Read More

To your left is a hard drive from IBM with a total capacity of 1GB. To your right is an SD card whose capacity is equal to that of the IBM drive. That’s what 20 years of advancement will get you. Awesome.
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